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Title: [Published CUSIP Number: ] CREDIT AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 11/3/2006
Industry: Semiconductors     Law Firm: Latham Watkins     Sector: Technology

[Published CUSIP Number: ] CREDIT AGREEMENT, Parties: banc of america securities llc , bank of america  n.a. , spansion inc , spansion llc
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EXHIBIT 10.76

EXECUTION COPY

 

 

[Published CUSIP Number:          ]

CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of November 1, 2006

among

SPANSION LLC,

as the Borrower,

SPANSION INC.,

as a Guarantor,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent

and

The Other Lenders Party Hereto

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,

as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book Manager

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

         

 

 

 

  

Page

ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

  

1

   1.01

 

Defined Terms

  

1

    •    1.02

 

Other Interpretive Provisions

  

26

    •    1.03

 

Accounting Terms

  

27

    •    1.04

 

Rounding

  

29

    •    1.05

 

Times of Day

  

29

    •    1.06

 

Currency Equivalents Generally

  

29

ARTICLE II

 

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

  

29

    •    2.01

 

The Loans

  

29

    •    2.02

 

Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans

  

29

    •    2.03

 

Prepayments

  

31

    •    2.04

 

Termination or Reduction of Commitments

  

33

    •    2.05

 

Repayment of Loans

  

33

    •    2.06

 

Interest

  

34

    •    2.07

 

Fees

  

34

    •    2.08

 

Computation of Interest and Fees

  

34

    •    2.09

 

Evidence of Debt

  

35

    •    2.10

 

Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback

  

35

    •    2.11

 

Sharing of Payments by Lenders

  

37

ARTICLE III

 

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

  

38

    •    3.01

 

Taxes

  

38

    •    3.02

 

Illegality

  

41

    •    3.03

 

Inability to Determine Rates

  

41

    •    3.04

 

Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans

  

42

    •    3.05

 

Compensation for Losses

  

43

    •    3.06

 

Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders

  

43

    •    3.07

 

Survival

  

44

ARTICLE IV

 

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS

  

44

    •    4.01

 

Conditions of Initial Credit Extension

  

44

    •    4.02

 

Conditions to all Credit Extensions

  

48



 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

 

         

 

  

 

  

Page

  • ARTICLE V

  

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

  

49

    •    5.01

  

Existence, Qualification and Power

  

49

    •    5.02

  

Authorization; No Contravention

  

49

    •    5.03

  

Governmental Authorization; Other Consents

  

50

    •    5.04

  

Binding Effect

  

50

    •    5.05

  

Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect; No Internal Control Event

  

50

    •    5.06

  

Litigation

  

51

    •    5.07

  

No Default

  

51

    •    5.08

  

Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments

  

51

    •    5.09

  

Environmental Compliance

  

55

    •    5.10

  

Insurance

  

55

    •    5.11

  

Taxes

  

53

    •    5.12

  

ERISA Compliance

  

53

    •    5.13

  

Subsidiaries; Equity Interests; Loan Parties

  

54

    •    5.14

  

Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act

  

54

    •    5.15

  

Disclosure

  

54

    •    5.16

  

Compliance with Laws

  

55

    •    5.17

  

Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc

  

55

    •    5.18

  

Solvency

  

55

    •    5.19

  

Casualty, Etc

  

55

    •    5.20

  

Labor Matters

  

55

    •    5.21

  

Transactions with Affiliates

  

56

    •    5.22

  

Broker’s Fees

  

56

  • ARTICLE VI

  

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

  

56

    •    6.01

  

Financial Statements

  

56

    •    6.02

  

Certificates; Other Information

  

57

    •    6.03

  

Notices

  

59

    •    6.04

  

Payment of Obligations

  

60

    •    6.05

  

Preservation of Existence, Etc

  

61



 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

 

         

 

  

 

  

Page

    •    6.06

  

Maintenance of Properties

  

61

    •    6.07

  

Maintenance of Insurance

  

61

    •    6.08

  

Compliance with Laws

  

62

    •    6.09

  

Books and Records

  

62

    •    6.10

  

Inspection Rights

  

62

    •    6.11

  

Use of Proceeds

  

63

    •    6.12

  

Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security

  

63

    •    6.13

  

Compliance with Environmental Laws

  

64

    •    6.14

  

Preparation of Environmental Reports

  

66

    •    6.15

  

Further Assurances

  

66

    •    6.16

  

Compliance with Terms of Leaseholds

  

66

    •    6.17

  

Interest Rate Hedging

  

66

    •    6.18

  

Lien Searches

  

66

    •    6.19

  

Material Contracts

  

69

    •    6.20

  

Designation as Senior Debt

  

67

  • ARTICLE VII

  

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

  

67

    •    7.01

  

Liens

  

67

    •    7.02

  

Indebtedness

  

68

    •    7.03

  

Investments

  

70

    •    7.04

  

Fundamental Changes

  

72

    •    7.05

  

Dispositions

  

73

    •    7.06

  

Restricted Payments

  

74

    •    7.07

  

Change in Nature of Business

  

75

    •    7.08

  

Transactions with Affiliates

  

75

    •    7.09

  

Burdensome Agreements

  

76

    •    7.10

  

Use of Proceeds

  

76

    •    7.11

  

Financial Covenants

  

76

    •    7.12

  

Capital Expenditures

  

77

    •    7.13

  

Amendments of Organization Documents

  

77

    •    7.14

  

Accounting Changes

  

78



 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

 

         

 

 

 

  

Page

    •    7.15

 

Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness

  

78

    •    7.16

 

Amendment, Etc. of High Yield Notes Documents and other Indebtedness

  

78

    •    7.17

 

Holding Company

  

78

    •    7.18

 

Designation of Senior Debt

  

78

    •    7.19

 

Capital Structure

  

78

  • ARTICLE VIII

 

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

  

79

    •    8.01

 

Events of Default

  

79

    •    8.02

 

Remedies upon Event of Default

  

81

    •    8.03

 

Application of Funds

  

81

  • ARTICLE IX

 

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

  

82

    •    9.01

 

Appointment and Authority

  

82

    •    9.02

 

Rights as a Lender

  

83

    •    9.03

 

Exculpatory Provisions

  

83

    •    9.04

 

Reliance by Administrative Agent

  

84

    •    9.05

 

Delegation of Duties

  

84

    •    9.06

 

Resignation of Administrative Agent

  

84

    •    9.07

 

Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders

  

85

    •    9.08

 

No Other Duties, Etc

  

85

    •    9.09

 

Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim

  

85

    •    9.10

 

Collateral and Guaranty Matters

  

86

  • ARTICLE X

 

CONTINUING GUARANTY

  

87

    •   10.01

 

Guaranty

  

87

    •   10.02

 

Rights of Lenders

  

87

    •   10.03

 

Certain Waivers

  

88

    •   10.04

 

Obligations Independent

  

88

    •   10.05

 

Subrogation

  

88

    •   10.06

 

Termination; Reinstatement

  

88

    •   10.07

 

Subordination

  

89

    •   10.08

 

Stay of Acceleration

  

89

    •   10.09

 

Condition of Borrower

  

89



 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

 

         

 

  

 

  

Page

    •    10.10

  

Additional Guarantor Waivers and Agreements

  

89

  • ARTICLE XI

  

MISCELLANENOUS

  

90

    •    11.01

  

Amendments, Etc

  

90

    •    11.02

  

Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications

  

92

    •    11.03

  

No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies

  

94

    •    11.04

  

Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver

  

94

    •    11.05

  

Payments Set Aside

  

96

    •    11.06

  

Successors and Assigns

  

96

    •    11.07

  

Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality

  

100

    •    11.08

  

Right of Setoff

  

101

    •    11.09

  

Interest Rate Limitation

  

101

    •    11.10

  

Counterparts; Effectiveness

  

101

    •    11.11

  

Survival of Representations and Warranties

  

102

    •    11.12

  

Severability

  

102

    •    11.13

  

Replacement of Lenders

  

102

    •    11.14

  

Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc

  

103

    •    11.15

  

Waiver of Jury Trial

  

104

    •    11.16

  

No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility

  

104

    •    11.17

  

USA PATRIOT Act Notice

  

105

    •    11.18

  

Time of the Essence

  

105

    •    11.19

  

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

  

105

    •    11.20

  

DESIGNATED SENIOR DEBT

  

105



 

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  • SCHEDULES

  

 
 

 

  • 2.01

  

  • Commitments and Applicable Percentages

 

 

  • 4.01(a)(iv)

  

  • Mortgaged Property

 

 

  • 5.03

  

  • Certain Authorizations

 

 

  • 5.05

  

  • Supplement to Interim Financial Statements

 

 

  • 5.06

  

  • Disclosed Litigation

 

 

  • 5.08(b)

  

  • Existing Liens

 

 

  • 5.08(c)

  

  • Owned Real Property

 

 

  • 5.08(d)(i)

  

  • Leased Real Property (Lessee)

 

 

  • 5.08(d)(ii)

  

  • Leased Real Property (Lessor)

 

 

  • 5.08(e)

  

  • Existing Investments

 

 

  • 5.09

  

  • Environmental Matters

 

 

  • 5.13

  

  • Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments; Loan Parties

 

 

  • 5.20

  

  • Labor Matters

 

 

  • 5.21

  

  • Transactions with Affiliates

 

 

  • 6.12

  

  • Guarantors

 

 

  • 6.18

  

  • Material Contracts

 

 

  • 7.02

  

  • Existing Indebtedness

 

 

  • 7.09

  

  • Burdensome Agreements

 

 

  • 11.02

  

  • Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices



 

EXHIBITS

 

 

 

         
 

  

Form of

 

  

A

  

Committed Loan Notice

 

  

B

  

Note

 

  

C

  

Compliance Certificate

 

  

D

  

Assignment and Assumption

 

  

E

  

Guaranty

 

  

F

  

Security Agreement

 

  

G

  

Mortgage

 

  

H

  

Reserved

 

  

I-1

  

Opinion Matters – Counsel to Loan Parties

 

  

I-2

  

Opinion Matters – Local Counsel to Loan Parties

 

  

J

  

Joinder Agreement

 

  

K

  

Intercreditor Agreement



CREDIT AGREEMENT

This CREDIT AGREEMENT (" Agreement ") is entered into as of November 1, 2006, among SPANSION LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the " Borrower "), SPANSION INC., a Delaware corporation (" Holdings "), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the " Lenders " and individually, a " Lender "), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

 

1

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS :

The Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide a term loan facility, and the Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.

In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

1.01 Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

" Account Control Agreements " has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.

" Accounts " means all of the Borrower’s now owned or hereafter acquired or arising accounts, as defined in the UCC, including any rights to payment for the sale or lease of goods or rendition of services, whether or not they have been earned by performance.

" Accounts Receivable " means, at any date of determination, the difference of (a) the gross amount of Accounts originated and owned by the Borrower on the date of such determination arising from fully consummated unconditional sales in the ordinary course of business to Persons who are not Affiliates of the Borrower with respect to which no more than 90 days have elapsed since the date of the original invoice therefor or which is no more than 60 days past due and which have not been determined by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to be uncollectible for any reason less (b) sales, excise or similar taxes, and less returns, discounts, claims, credits and allowances, accrued rebates, offsets, deductions, counterclaims, disputes and other defenses of any nature at any time issued, owing, granted, outstanding, available or claimed with respect to such Accounts.

" Acquisition " by any Person, means the purchase or acquisition in a single transaction or a series of related transactions by any such Person, individually or, together with its Affiliates, of (a) any Equity Interest of any other Person (other than an existing Subsidiary of the Borrower) which are sufficient such that such other Person becomes a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower or (b) all or a substantial portion of the property, including, without limitation, all or a substantial portion of the property comprising a division, business unit or line of business, of any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower), whether involving a merger or consolidation with such other Person. " Acquire " has a meaning correlative thereto.

" Administrative Questionnaire " means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

 

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" Affiliate " means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.

" Aggregate Commitments " means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

" Aggregate Credit Exposures " means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Loans outstanding at such time.

" Agreement " means this Credit Agreement.

" AMD " means Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

" Applicable Percentage " means with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Facility represented by (a) on or prior to the Funding Date, such Lender’s Commitment at such time and (b) thereafter, the principal amount of such Lender’s Loans at such time. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.

" Applicable Rate " means the applicable percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to S&P’s corporate credit rating of Holdings and Moody’s corporate family rating of Holdings (the " Ratings "):

Applicable Rate

 

 

                 

Pricing
Level

  

Ratings

  

Eurodollar
Rate
Loans

 

 

Base
Rate
Loans

 

  • 1

  

Less than B by S&P or Less than B2 by Moody’s

  

3.00

%

 

2.00

%

  • 2

  

B or better by S&P and B2 or better by Moody’s

  

2.75

%

 

1.75

%



; provided , that if only one or no Rating is issued, then Pricing Level 1 shall apply.

" Appropriate Lender " means, at any time, with respect to the Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Loan at such time.

" Approved Fund " means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

" Arranger " means Banc of America Securities LLC, in its capacity as sole lead arranger and sole book manager.

 

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" Assignee Group " means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.

" Assignment and Assumption " means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.06(b) , and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit D or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

" Attributable Indebtedness " means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease or similar payments under the relevant lease or other applicable agreement or instrument that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease or other agreement or instrument were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease and (c) all Synthetic Debt of such Person.

" Audited Financial Statements " means the audited consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2005, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.

" Bank of America " means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.

" Base Rate " means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1% and (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its "prime rate." The "prime rate" is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.

" Base Rate Loan " means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

" Borrower " has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

" Borrower Materials " has the meaning specified in Section 6.02 .

" Borrowing " means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01 .

" Business Day " means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.

 

4

" Capital Expenditures " means all payments due (whether or not paid during any fiscal period) in respect of the cost of any fixed asset or improvement, or replacement, substitution, or addition thereto, which has a useful life of more than one year, including, without limitation, those costs arising in connection with the direct or indirect acquisition of such asset by way of increased product or service charges or in connection with a Capitalized Lease.

" Capitalized Leases " means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases.

" Cash Collateral Account " means a blocked, non-interest bearing deposit account of one or more of the Loan Parties at Bank of America in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, and otherwise established in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

" Cash Equivalents " means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries free and clear of all Liens (other than Liens created under the Collateral Documents and other Liens permitted hereunder):

(a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof;

(b) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;

(c) commercial paper issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States of America and rated at least "Prime-1" (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or at least "A-1" (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof;

(d) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P, and the portfolios of which are limited solely to Investments of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this definition;

(e) auction-rate preferred securities having a maturity of 28 days or less from the date of acquisition and a minimum rating of AA by Standard and Poor’s or Aa2 by Moody’s;

 

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(f) United States Dollars or euros;

(g) obligations of any city, state or other subdivision of the United States having a maturity of not more than 180 days from the acquisition thereof and having a rating of at least "Prime-1" (or the then equivalent grade) by Moody’s or at least "A-1" (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P;

(h) money market funds with assets of at least $5,000,000,000 whose investment objectives and guidelines closely match the credit profiles of the above investments; and

(f) with respect to any Subsidiary not formed under the laws of, or less than 50 percent of the assets of which are located in, the United States of America or any jurisdiction thereof, substantially similar Investments as those contained in clauses (a) through (d) above, of comparable credit quality, denominated in the currency of any jurisdiction where such Subsidiary does business.

" Cash Management Agreement " means any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

" Cash Management Bank " means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement.

" CERCLA " means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980.

" CERCLIS " means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

" CFC " means a Person that is a controlled foreign corporation under Section 957 of the Code.

" Change in Law " means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority.

" Change of Control " means an event or series of events by which:

(a) any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) other than the Equity Investors becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of

 

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1934), directly or indirectly, of 30% or more of the equity securities of Holdings entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of Holdings on a fully-diluted basis ( provided , however , that if (i) the person or group acquires such equity securities in connection with the acquisition by Holdings or a direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Holdings of all or substantially all of the stock or all or any substantial portion of the assets of an unaffiliated Person or any line or lines of business or division of such Person and (ii) Holdings obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the consideration to be paid in connection with such acquisition is fair, from a financial point of view, to Holdings and/or any relevant subsidiaries, then for purposes of this definition, "30%" shall be replaced with "45%"); or

(b) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation thereof, will result in its or their acquisition of the power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of Holdings, or control over the equity securities of Holdings entitled to elect a majority of members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of Holdings; or

(c) Holdings shall cease, directly or indirectly, to own and control legally and beneficially all of the Equity Interests in the Borrower; or

(d) a "change of control" or any comparable term under, and as defined in, the Senior Notes Documents, the Debenture Documents or the Revolving Credit Agreement shall have occurred (but only so long as any such document or agreement remains in effect and only to the extent not waived under any such document or agreement).

" Code " means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

" Collateral " means all of the " Collateral " and " Mortgaged Property " referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

" Collateral Documents " means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Mortgages, the Account Control Agreements, the mortgages, collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.12 , and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

" Commitment " means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption "Commitment" or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.

 

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" Committed Loan Notice " means a notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a) , which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A .

" Compliance Certificate " means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C .

" Consolidated EBITDA " means, at any date of determination, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges, (ii) the provision for Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes payable, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense and (iv) other expenses reducing such Consolidated Net Income which do not represent a cash item in such period or any future period (in each case of or by Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period) and minus (b) the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Federal, state, local and foreign income tax credits and (ii) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income (in each case of or by Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period). For the purpose of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.03 .

" Consolidated Funded Indebtedness " means, as of any date of determination, for Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations, whether current or long-term, for borrowed money (including Obligations hereunder) and all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments, (b) all purchase money Indebtedness, (c) all direct obligations arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments, (d) all obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business), (e) all Attributable Indebtedness, (f) without duplication, all Guarantees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (e) above of Persons other than the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (g) all Indebtedness of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which the Borrower or a Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to the Borrower or such Subsidiary. For the purpose of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated Funded Indebtedness shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.03 .

" Consolidated Interest Charges " means, for any Measurement Period, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, (b) all interest paid or payable with respect to discontinued operations and (c) the portion

 

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of rent expense under Capitalized Leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, in each case, of or by Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period. For the purpose of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated Interest Charges shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.03 .

" Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio " means, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA to (b) the Consolidated Interest Charges of or by Holdings and its Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period.

" Consolidated Leverage Ratio " means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA.

" Consolidated Net Income " means, at any date of determination, the net income (or loss) of Holdings and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the most recently completed Measurement Period; provided that Consolidated Net Income shall exclude (a) extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses for such Measurement Period, (b) the net income of any Subsidiary during such Measurement Period to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary of such income is not permitted by operation of the terms of its Organization Documents or any agreement, instrument or Law applicable to such Subsidiary during such Measurement Period, except that Holdings’ equity in any net loss of any such Subsidiary for such Measurement Period shall be included in determining Consolidated Net Income, and (c) any income (or loss) for such Measurement Period of any Person if such Person is not a Subsidiary, except that Holdings’ equity in the net income of any such Person for such Measurement Period shall be included in Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash actually distributed by such Person during such Measurement Period to Holdings or a Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (and in the case of a dividend or other distribution to a Subsidiary, such Subsidiary is not precluded from further distributing such amount to Holdings as described in clause (b) of this proviso). For the purpose of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, Consolidated Net Income shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with the provisions of Section 1.03 .

" Consolidated Parties " means Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries (regardless of whether or not consolidated with Holdings for purposes of GAAP), collectively, and "Consolidated Party" means any one of them.

" Consolidated Senior Secured Debt " means all Consolidated Funded Indebtedness of Holdings and its Subsidiaries that is secured by a lien on any property of Holdings or its Subsidiaries.

" Consolidated Total Assets " means, with respect to any date of determination, the total consolidated assets shown on the consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP on the last day of the fiscal quarter prior to the date of determination.

 

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" Contractual Obligation " means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

" Control " means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. " Controlling " and " Controlled " have meanings correlative thereto.

" Credit Agreement Supplement " has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(d).

" Credit Extension " means a Borrowing.

" Debenture Documents " means (i) the Debenture Indenture, (ii) the Debentures, and (iii) all other agreements, instruments and other documents pursuant to which the Debentures were issued or otherwise setting forth the terms of the Debentures.

" Debenture Indenture " means the Indenture, dated as of June 12, 2006, by and among the Borrower, Holdings, Spansion Technology Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee.

" Debentures " means the 2.25% Exchangeable Senior Subordinated Debentures due 2016 in an original aggregate principal amount of $180,000,000 issued and sold pursuant to the Debenture Documents.

" Debt Rating " means, as of any date of determination, the corporate family rating as determined by Moody’s and the corporate credit rating as determined by S&P.

" Debtor Relief Laws " means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

" Default " means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

" Default Rate " means an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans under the Facility plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided , however , that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum.

" Defaulting Lender " means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, or (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

 

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" Disclosed Litigation " has the meaning set forth in Section 5.06 .

" Disposition " or " Dispose " means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any property by any Person (or the granting of any option or other right to do any of the foregoing), including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.

" Dollar " and " $ " mean lawful money of the United States.

" Domestic Subsidiary " means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.

" Eligible Assignee " means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.06(b)(iii) , (v)  and (vi)  (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.06(b)(iii) ).

" Environmental Laws " means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.

" Environmental Liability " means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

" Environmental Lien " means a Lien in favor of any Governmental Authority for (a) any liability under Environmental Laws, or (b) damages arising from, or costs incurred by such Governmental Authority in response to, a release or threatened release of a Hazardous Material.

" Environmental Permit " means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.

" Equity Interests " means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or

 

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other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.

" Equity Investors " means AMD and Fujitsu.

" ERISA " means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

" ERISA Affiliate " means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001(a) of ERISA or which is treated as a single employer with the Borrower under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).

" ERISA Event " means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan.

" Eurodollar Rate " means, for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate per annum equal to the British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate (" BBA LIBOR "), as published by Reuters (or other commercially available source providing quotations of BBA LIBOR as designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period. If such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the "Eurodollar Rate" for such Interest Period shall be the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate amount of the Eurodollar Rate Loan being made, continued or converted by Bank of America and with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank of America’s London Branch to major banks in the London interbank eurodollar market at their request at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.

 

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" Eurodollar Rate Loan " means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Eurodollar Rate.

" Event of Default " has the meaning specified in Section 8.01 .

" Excess Cash Flow " means, for any fiscal year of the Borrower, the excess (if any) of:

(a) the sum of (i) Consolidated EBITDA for such fiscal year plus (ii) extraordinary cash income, if any, business interruption insurance proceeds, if any, and Net Cash Proceeds attributable to Dispositions out of the ordinary course of business if any, of the Consolidated Parties during such period to the extent not included in Consolidated EBITDA for such period and not required to be utilized in connection with a payment made or to be made pursuant to Section 2.03(b)(ii) , minus ;

(b) the sum (for such fiscal year) of (i) Consolidated Interest Charges actually paid in cash by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, plus (ii) all income taxes actually paid in cash by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, plus (iii) Capital Expenditures of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such period paid in cash, plus (iv) the aggregate amount of all required principal payments or redemptions or similar acquisitions for value of outstanding Consolidated Funded Indebtedness (including the Loans), but excluding any such payments to the extent refinanced through the incurrence of additional Indebtedness otherwise expressly permitted under Section 7.02 , plus (v) the aggregate principal amount of all optional prepayments made in cash pursuant to Section 2.03(a) hereof with internally generated funds during such period, plus (vi) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments in cash during such period made in accordance with Section 7.06 .

" Excluded Issuance " by any Person means (i) an issuance and sale of an Equity Interest in such Person in connection with employment agreements and stock option or employee compensation agreements approved by the board of directors of Holdings or an issuance of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person upon the exercise of warrants, options or other rights for the purchase of such capital stock (or other ownership or profit interest), (ii) an issuance of an Equity Interest upon exchange of the Debentures or any other exchangeable or convertible debt security, and (iii) any sales of Equity Interests that occur no later than March 31, 2007, to the extent the net proceeds are no greater than $100,000,000.

" Excluded Taxes " means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any Obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 11.13 ), any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new Lending Office) or is attributable to

 

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such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a result of a Change in Law) to comply with Section 3.01(e) , except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a) and (d) in the case of any non-Foreign Lender which changes its Lending Office with respect to the Loans to an office outside the United States, any taxes that are in effect and would apply to a payment to such Lender as of the date of the change of the lending office.

" Facility " means, at any time, (a) on or prior to the Funding Date, the aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of the Loans of all Lenders outstanding at such time.

" Federal Funds Rate " means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

" Fee Letter " means the letter agreement, dated September 25, 2006, among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger.

" Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement " has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(d) .

" Foreign Lender " means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

" Foreign Plan " has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(d) .

" Fractional Share Payments " has the meaning specified in Section 7.06(f) .

" FRB " means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

" Fujitsu " means Fujitsu Microelectronics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

" Fujitsu Limited " means Fujitsu Limited, a company organized under the laws of Japan.

 

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" Fund " means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.

" Funding Date " means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 11.01 .

" GAAP " means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied. !

" Governmental Authority " means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

" Granting Lender " has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(h) .

" Guarantee " means, as to any Person, any (a) obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the " primary obligor ") in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term " Guarantee " as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

 

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" Guarantors " means, collectively, Holdings, the Subsidiaries of Holdings listed on Schedule 6.12 and each other Subsidiary of Holdings that shall be required to execute and deliver a guaranty or guaranty supplement pursuant to Section 6.12 .

" Guaranty " means, collectively, the Guaranty made by Holdings under Article X in favor of the Secured Parties and the Guaranty made by the other Guarantors in favor of the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit E , together with each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12 .

" Hazardous Materials " means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

" Hedge Bank " means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Secured Hedge Agreement, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Secured Hedge Agreement.

" Holdings " has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

" Indebtedness " means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:

(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;

(b) the maximum amount of all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;

(c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and not past due for more than 90 days after the date on which such trade account was created);

(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

(f) all Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized Leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations of such Person and all Synthetic Debt of such Person;

 

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(g) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person or any warrant, right or option to acquire such Equity Interest, valued, in the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and

(h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation, limited liability company or similar legal entity) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date.

" Indemnified Taxes " means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.

" Indemnitees " has the meaning specified in Section 11.04(b) .

" Indenture Restricted Payment Terms " means the restrictions contained in Section 4.10 of the Senior Notes Indenture.

" Independent Financial Advisor " means an investment banking firm of national standing or any third-party appraiser with national standing in the United States, provided that such firm of appraiser is not an Affiliate of Holdings.

" Information " has the meaning specified in Section 11.07 .

" Information Memorandum " means the information memorandum dated September, 2006 used by the Arranger in connection with the syndication of the Commitments.

" Intercreditor Agreement " means an intercreditor agreement dated as of the date hereof among the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Credit Agent, and acknowledged and agreed to by the Borrower, Holdings, and the other Loan Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit K hereto.

" Interest Payment Date " means, (a) as to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided , however , that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.

" Interest Period " means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:

 

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(a) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;

(b) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and

(c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.

" Investment " means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or interest in, another Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute a business unit or all or a substantial part of the business of, such Person. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.

" IP Rights " has the meaning specified in Section 5.17 .

" IRS " means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

" Joinder Agreement " means a Joinder Agreement executed and delivered in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.12 , substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto.

" JV1/JV2 Facility " means that certain factory located at 6,5-4,5-11,31-6 Kogyodanchi Monden-machi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima Japan and that certain power plant and office at 4 Kogyodanchi Monden-machi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima Japan, and all appurtenant and related fixtures, property and equipment at such locations.

" Laws " means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

" Lender " has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.

 

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" Lending Office " means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

" Lien " means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

" Liquidity " means, as of any date of determination, the difference of (a) the sum of all cash and Cash Equivalents plus Accounts Receivable, minus (b) the product of (i) the principal amount outstanding under the Revolving Credit Agreement times (ii) 1.5.

" Loan " means an advance made by any Lender under Article II .

" Loan Documents " means, collectively, (a) for purposes of this Agreement and the Notes and all other purposes other than for purposes of the Guaranty, any Joinder Agreement, any of the Collateral Documents and Sections 6.12 and 8.03 of this Agreement, (i) this Agreement, (ii) each Note, (iii) the Guaranty, (iv) each Collateral Document, (v) the Fee Letter, and (vi) each Joinder Agreement and (b) for purposes of the Guaranty, each Joinder Agreement, each Collateral Document and Sections 6.12 and 8.03 of this Agreement, (i) each document under clause (a)  of this definition, (ii) each Secured Hedge Agreement and (iii) each Secured Cash Management Agreement.

" Loan Parties " means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor.

" Material Adverse Effect " means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or financial condition of the Borrower or the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document, or of the ability of any Loan Party to perform its material obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party.

" Material Contract " means, with respect to any Person, each contract to which such Person is a party which is material to the business, condition (financial or otherwise), operations, performance or properties of such Person.

" Material Subsidiary " means any direct or indirect Domestic Subsidiary of Holdings which (a) has total assets equal to or greater than 2% of Total Assets (calculated as of the most recent fiscal period with respect to which the Lenders shall have received financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) or (b)  (or if prior to delivery of any financial statements pursuant to such Sections, then calculated with respect to the year end

 

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financial statements referenced in Section 5.05(a)) (the "Required Financial Information")) or (b) has income equal to or greater than 2% of Consolidated Net Income (calculated for the most recent period for which the Lenders have received the Required Financial Information); provided , however , that notwithstanding the foregoing, the term "Material Subsidiary" shall mean each of those Domestic Subsidiaries that together with Holdings and each other Material Subsidiary (i) have assets equal to not less than 90% of Total Assets (calculated as described above) and (ii) generate not less than 90% of Consolidated Net Income of the Consolidated Parties; provided further that if more than one combination of Subsidiaries satisfies such threshold, then those Subsidiaries so determined to be "Material Subsidiaries" shall be specified by the Borrower.

" Maturity Date " means November 3, 2012; provided , however , that, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.

" Measurement Period " means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of Holdings or, if fewer than four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings have been completed since the Funding Date, the fiscal quarters of Holdings that have been completed since the Funding Date.

" Moody’s " means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

" Mortgage " has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(a)(iv) .

" Mortgage Policy " has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(a)(iv)(B) .

" Multiemployer Plan " means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

" Net Cash Proceeds " means:

(a) with respect to any Disposition by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset and that is required to be repaid in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection with such transaction and (C) income taxes reasonably estimated to be actually payable within two years of the date of the relevant transaction as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith; provided that, if the amount of any estimated taxes pursuant to subclause (C) exceeds the amount of taxes actually required to be paid in cash in respect of such Disposition, the aggregate amount of such excess shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds; and

 

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(b) with respect to the sale or issuance of any Equity Interest by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in connection therewith.

" Note " means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender evidencing Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit B .

" NPL " means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.

" Obligations " means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding.

" Organization Documents " means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.

" Other Taxes " means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

" Outstanding Amount " means the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans on any date after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Loans occurring on such date.

" Participant " has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(d) .

" PBGC " means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

" PCAOB " means the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

 

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" Pension Plan " means any "employee pension benefit plan" (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.

" Perfection Certificate " has the meaning given such term in Section 1.03 of the Security Agreement.

" Permitted Encumbrances " has the meaning specified in the Mortgages.

" Permitted Tax Payment " means the payment of any dividend or distribution to Holdings in an amount not to exceed the then maximum Federal, state and local income tax liabilities arising from income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and attributable to Holdings. Each tax distribution shall be calculated and distributed so that Holdings shall receive a tax distribution sufficient to pay the income taxes required to be paid (after giving effect to any income tax credits, losses carried forward, or similar reductions to income taxes due) in respect of the relevant period.

" Person " means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

" Plan " means any "employee benefit plan" (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established by the Borrower or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.

" Platform " has the meaning specified in Section 6.02 .

" Pledged Debt " has the meaning specified in Section 2.01 of the Security Agreement.

" Pledged Equity " has the meaning specified in Section 2.01 of the Security Agreement.

" Pro Forma Basis " has the meaning specified in Section 1.03 .

" Register " has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(c) .

" Registered Public Accounting Firm " has the meaning specified by the Securities Laws and shall be independent of Holdings as prescribed by the Securities Laws.

" Related Parties " means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

 

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" Reportable Event " means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.

" Request for Credit Extension " means with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Loans, a Committed Loan Notice.

" Required Lenders " means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the Outstanding Amount provided that the portion of the Outstanding Amount held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

" Responsible Officer " means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

" Restricted Payment " means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of any Person or any of its Subsidiaries, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to any Person’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent of any thereof), or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such dividend or other distribution or payment.

" Revolving Credit Agent " means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as agent for the lenders under the Revolving Credit Agreement.

" Revolving Credit Agreement " means that certain Credit Agreement dated as of September 19, 2005 among the Borrower, Holdings, the Revolving Credit Agent, and a syndicate of lenders.

" Revolving Credit Loan Documents " means the Revolving Credit Agreement and the other "Loan Documents" as defined therein.

" S&P " means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

" Sarbanes-Oxley " means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

" SEC " means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

" Secured Cash Management Agreement " means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between the Borrower and any Cash Management Bank.

 

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" Secured Hedge Agreement " means any interest rate Swap Contract required or permitted under Article VI or VII that is entered into by and between the Borrower and any Hedge Bank.

" Secured Parties " means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05 , and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.

" Securities Laws " means the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the applicable accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated, approved or incorporated by the SEC or the PCAOB.

" Security Agreement " means the pledge and security agreement, in substantially the form of Exhibit F , together with each other pledge and security agreement and pledge and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12 .

" Security Agreement Supplement " has the meaning specified in Section 1.01 of the Security Agreement.

" Senior Notes " means the 11.25% senior notes of the Borrower due 2016 in an original aggregate principal amount of $250,000,000 issued and sold pursuant to the Senior Notes Documents.

" Senior Notes Indenture " means the Indenture dated as of December 21, 2005 by and among the Borrower, Holdings, Spansion Technology Inc. and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee.

" Senior Notes Documents " means (i) the Senior Notes Indenture, (ii) the Senior Notes and (iii) all other agreements, instruments and other documents pursuant to which the Senior Notes have been or will be issued or otherwise setting forth the terms of the Senior Notes.

" Solvent " and " Solvency " mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital, and (e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary course of business. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

 

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" SP1 Facilities " means that certain fabrication facility located in Japan and any other 300mm manufacturing facility owned by the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

" SPC " has the meaning specified in Section 11.06(h) .

" Subsidiary " of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a " Subsidiary " or to " Subsidiaries " shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Holdings.

" Swap Contract " means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a " Master Agreement "), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

" Swap Termination Value " means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).

" Synthetic Debt " means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination thereof, all obligations of such Person in respect of transactions entered into by such Person that are intended to function primarily as a borrowing of funds (including any minority interest transactions that function primarily as a borrowing) but are not otherwise included in the definition of " Indebtedness " or as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

 

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" Synthetic Lease Obligation " means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property (including sale and leaseback transactions), in each case, creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the application of any Debtor Relief Laws to such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).

" Taxes " means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

" Total Assets " means, with respect to any date of determination, Holdings’ total consolidated assets shown on its consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP on the last day of the fiscal quarter prior to the date of determination.

" Transaction " means, collectively, (a) the entering into by the Loan Parties and their applicable Subsidiaries of the Loan Documents to which they are or are intended to be a party and (b) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the consummation of the foregoing.

" Type " means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

" UCC " means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, " UCC " means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

" Unfunded Pension Liability " means an "accumulated funding deficiency" within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code.

" United States " and " U.S. " mean the United States of America.

" U.S. Loan Party " means any Loan Party that is organized under the laws of one of the states of the United States of America and that is not a CFC.

1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions . With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

(a) The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words " include ," " includes " and " including " shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation." The word " will " shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word " shall ." Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other

 

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document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (iii) the words " herein ," " hereof " and " hereunder ," and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words " asset " and " property " shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

(b) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word " from " means " from and including ;" the words " to " and " until " each mean " to but excluding ;" and the word " through " means " to and including ."

(c) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

1.03 Accounting Terms . (a)  Generally . All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

(b) Changes in GAAP . If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP.

 

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(c) Pro Forma Calculations . Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any calculation of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio for any Measurement Period during which an Acquisition or Disposition shall have occurred (or shall be deemed to have occurred for the purposes described in clause (iii)  of this Section 1.03(c) ) shall each be made on a Pro Forma Basis for purposes of making the following determinations:

  • (i) determining the applicable pricing level under the definitions of "Applicable Rate" and "Applicable Commitment Fee Percentage";

    (ii) determining compliance with the Consolidated Leverage Ratio (other than whether the conditions precedent for a proposed transaction have been satisfied as contemplated by subsection (iii)  of this Section 1.03(c) );

    (iii) determining whether the conditions precedent have been satisfied for a proposed transaction which is permitted hereunder only so long as no Default will result from the consummation thereof, including, without limitation, any Disposition or any Investment which results in an Acquisition; and

    (iv) determining whether a mandatory prepayment is required to be made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03(b)(iii) or (iv) .

" Pro Forma Basis " means, for purposes of calculating any financial ratio (including the Consolidated Leverage Ratio) or financial amount for any Measurement Period for any of the purposes specified in this Section 1.03(c) , and with respect to each proposed Acquisition or Disposition and each such transaction actually consummated in such Measurement Period, that such financial ratio or financial amount shall be calculated on a pro forma basis based on the following assumptions: (a) each such transaction shall be deemed to have occurred on the first day of such Measurement Period; (b) any funds to be used by any Person in consummating any such transaction will be assumed to have been used for that purpose as of the first day of such Measurement Period; (c) any Indebtedness to be incurred by any Person in connection with the consummation of any such transaction will be assumed to have been incurred on the first day of such Measurement Period; (d) the gross interest expenses, determined in accordance with GAAP, with respect to such Indebtedness assumed to have been incurred on the first day of such Measurement Period that bears interest at a floating rate shall be calculated at the current rate (as of the date of such calculation) under the agreement governing such Indebtedness (including this Agreement if the Indebtedness is incurred hereunder); and (e) any gross interest expense, determined in accordance with GAAP, with respect to Indebtedness outstanding during such Measurement Period that was or is to be refinanced with proceeds of a transaction assumed to have been incurred as of the first day of the Measurement Period will be excluded from such calculations (and to the extent not already excluded pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above, the principal amount of such Indebtedness shall be excluded). "Pro Forma Basis" may also include such adjustments for expected cost savings as are permitted under Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission and reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

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1.04 Rounding . Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).

1.05 Times of Day . Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Pacific time (daylight or standard, as applicable).

1.06 Currency Equivalents Generally . Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II , IX and X ) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount thereof in the applicable currency to be determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (as defined below) for the purchase of such currency with Dollars. For purposes of this Section 1.07 , the " Spot Rate " for a currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business Days prior to the date of such determination; provided that the Administrative Agent may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent if the Person acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such currency.

ARTICLE II

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

2.01 The Loans . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make a single loan to the Borrower on the Funding Date in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Facility. The Borrowing shall consist of Loans made simultaneously by the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage of the Facility. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans .

(a) Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations Generally . Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans, and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Each telephonic notice by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each Borrowing

 

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of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c) , each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.

(b) Notice to Lenders and Funding of Borrowings . Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage under the Facility of the Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans described in Section 2.02(a) . In the case of a Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01 ), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.

(c) Eurodollar Rate Loans . Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of a Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders.

(d) Notice of Interest Rate . The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.

 

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(e) Maximum Interest Periods . After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than five (5) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Facility.

2.03 Prepayments .

(a) Optional . The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (1) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (2) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (B) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (C) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment, the Facility to which such prepayment shall apply and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurodollar Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s ratable portion of such prepayment (based on such Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility). If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05 . Each prepayment of the outstanding Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(a) shall be applied to the principal repayment installments of the Loan on a pro-rata basis, and each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of the Facility.

(b) Mandatory .

  • (i) Excess Cash Flow . Within five Business Days after financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b), the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to (A) if Holdings’ Consolidated Leverage Ratio is greater than or equal to 2.00 to 1, 75% of Excess Cash Flow or (B) if Holdings’ Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 2.00 to 1, 50% of Excess Cash Flow; in each case, for the fiscal year covered by such financial statements (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clause (v) below).

    (ii) Dispositions . If any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries disposes of any property (other than any Disposition of any property permitted by Section 7.05(a) through (h) ) in a single or series of related transactions which results in the realization by such Person of Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $5,000,000, the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds immediately upon receipt thereof by such Person (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clause (v) below); provided , however , that, with respect to any Net Cash

 

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  • Proceeds realized under a Disposition described in this Section 2.03(b)(ii) , at the election of the Borrower (as notified by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of such Disposition), and so long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in operating assets so long as within 360 days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, such purchase shall have been consummated (as certified by the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent); and provided further , however , that any Net Cash Proceeds not subject to such definitive agreement or so reinvested shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Loans as set forth in this Section 2.03(b)(ii) .

    (iii) Equity Issuance . Upon the sale or issuance by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of any of its Equity Interests (other than (A) Excluded Issuances and (B) any sales or issuances of Equity Interests to another Loan Party), the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 50% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clause (v) below).

    (iv) Debt Issuance . Upon the incurrence or issuance by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.02 ), the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of Loans equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in clause (v) below).

    (v) Application of Prepayments Generally . Each prepayment of Loans pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(b) or Section 6.07(b) shall be applied to the remaining principal repayment installments of the Facility on a pro-rata basis.

(c) Prepayment Accounts . Amounts to be applied as provided in clause (b) above to the prepayment of Loans shall be applied first to reduce outstanding Base Rate Loans. Any amounts remaining after each such application shall, at the option of the Borrower, be applied to prepay Eurodollar Rate Loans immediately and/or shall be deposited in a separate Prepayment Account (as defined below) for such Eurodollar Rate Loans. The Administrative Agent shall apply any cash deposited in the Prepayment Account to prepay Eurodollar Rate Loans on the last day of their respective Interest Periods (or, at the direction of the Borrower, on any earlier date) until all outstanding Loans have been prepaid or until all the allocable cash on deposit in the Prepayment Account has been exhausted. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Prepayment Account" for any Loans shall mean an account established by the Borrower with the Administrative Agent and over which the Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal for application in accordance with this clause (c). The Administrative Agent will, at the request of the Borrower, invest amounts on deposit in the Prepayment Account in Cash Equivalents selected by the Borrower that mature prior to the last day of the applicable Interest Periods of the Eurodollar Rate Loans to be prepaid; provided , however , that (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be required to make

 

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any investment that, in its sole judgment, would require or cause the Administrative Agent to be in, or would result in any, violation of any Law, (ii) such Cash Equivalents shall be subjected to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent and (iii) if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the selection of such Cash Equivalents shall be in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent for any losses relating to such investments in Cash Equivalents so that the amount available to prepay Eurodollar Rate Loans on the last day of the applicable Interest Periods is not less than the amount that would have been available had no investments been made pursuant thereto. Interest or profits, if any, on the investments in any Prepayment Account shall accumulate in such Prepayment Account. If the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated pursuant to Section 8.02 , the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, apply such funds to satisfy any of the Obligations. The Borrower hereby pledges and assigns to the Administrative Agent, for its benefit and the benefit of the Lenders, each Prepayment Account established to secure the Obligations.

(d) Senior Notes Documents . Anything contained in Section 2.03(b) to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) if, following the occurrence of any " Asset Sale " (as such term is defined in the Senior Notes Documents) by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the Borrower is required to apply or cause its Subsidiaries to apply an amount equal to any of the " Net Available Cash " (as defined in the Senior Notes Documents) thereof in a particular manner, or to apply by a particular date (an " Application Date ") an amount equal to any such " Net Available Cash " in a particular manner, in either case in order to excuse the Borrower from being required to make a " Prepayment Offer " (as defined in the Senior Notes Documents in connection with such " Asset Sale ", and the Borrower shall have failed to so apply an amount equal to such " Net Available Cash " at least 90 days before the applicable Application Date, or (ii) if the Borrower at any other time shall have failed to apply or cause to be applied an amount equal to any such " Net Available Cash ", and, within 90 days thereafter assuming no further application of an amount equal to such " Net Available Cash " the Borrower would otherwise be required to make a " Prepayment Offer " in respect thereof, then in either such case the Borrower shall immediately pay or cause to be paid to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such " Net Available Cash " to be applied to the payment of the Loans in the manner set forth in Section 2.03(b) in such amounts as shall excuse the Borrower from making any such " Prepayment Offer ".

2.04 Termination or Reduction of Commitments . The aggregate Commitments shall be automatically and permanently reduced to zero immediately after the Borrowing.

2.05 Repayment of Loans . The Borrower shall repay to the Lenders the aggregate principal amount of all Loans in quarterly installments in the amount of $1,000,000 on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December (which amounts shall be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Section 2.03 ) beginning June 30, 2007; provided , however , that the final principal repayment installment of the Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date for the Facility and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding on such date.

 

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2.06 Interest . (a)  Interest Rates . Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b) , (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period applicable thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate for such Facility; and (ii) each Base Rate Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for such Facility.

(b) Default Rate . (i) If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(ii) If any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by the Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Required Lenders such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(iii) Upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, the Borrower shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(iv) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.

(c) Interest Payment Date . Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

2.07 Fees .

(a) The Borrower shall pay to the Arranger and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter.

(b) The Borrower shall pay to the Lenders such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified.

2.08 Computation of Interest and Fees . All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by Bank of America’s "prime rate" shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year). Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is

 

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made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.10(a) , bear interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

2.09 Evidence of Debt . (a)  Accounts and Records of Credit Extensions . The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

(b) Accounts and Records of Purchases and Sales . In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.

2.10 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback .

(a) General . All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected on computing interest or fees, as the case may be. Upon written or verbal authorization from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent may automatically deduct from any deposit account designated by the Borrower and held with the Administrative Agent the amount of any principal, interest or fees when due hereunder or under the other Loan Documents.

 

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(b) Funding Presumptions .

  • (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02 ) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If the Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

    (ii) Payments by Borrower; Presumptions by Administrative Agent . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the time at which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Appropriate Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Appropriate Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender, in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

 

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A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent . If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II , and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

(d) Obligations of Lenders Several . The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to make any payment under Section 11.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or to make its payment under Section 11.04(c) .

(e) Funding Source . Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(f) Insufficient Funds . If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i)  first , toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii)  second , toward payment of principal then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal then due to such parties.

2.11 Sharing of Payments by Lenders . If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a) Obligations in respect of the Facility due and payable to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations in respect of the Facility due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facility due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) Obligations in respect of the Facility owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii)

 

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the aggregate amount of the Obligations in respect of the Facility owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facility owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time, then, in each case under clauses (a) and (b) above, the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (A) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (B) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of Obligations in respect of the Facility then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be, provided that:

  • (i) if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and

    (ii) the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section shall apply).

Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan Party in the amount of such participation.

ARTICLE III

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

3.01 Taxes . (a)  Payments Free of Taxes . Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or Holdings hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if the Borrower shall be required by applicable law to deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent or any Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower or Holdings, as the case may be, shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower or Holdings, as the case may be, shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

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(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower and Holdings . Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Borrower and Holdings shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

(c) Indemnification by the Borrower and Holdings . The Borrower and Holdings shall, jointly and severally, indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(d) Evidence of Payments . As soon as reasonably practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower or Holdings, as the case may be, to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower or Holdings, as the case may be, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(e) Status of Lenders . Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower or Holdings, as the case may be, is resident for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Borr


 
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